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Narcisa Amália de Oliveira Campos (São João da Barra, 3 April 1856 - Rio de Janeiro, 24 June 1924) was a Brazilian poet, professional journalist, and women's rights activist.
Biography
Narcisa Amália was born in São João da Barra in 1856. In addition to several newspapers, she wrote for O Sexo Feminino (1870s), and collaborated in the journal A leitura (Reading; 1894-1896). After publishing her debut book of poetry, the romantic Nebulosas, Amália became engaged in a bitter dispute as it "was attributed to a 'young man' who borrowed her name". She later published Miragem, Nelumbia and O Romance da Mulher que Amou. Driven by strong social sensitivity, she fought against women's oppression. A women's rights activist, her 1892 book A Mulher do Século XIX (Women of the Nineteenth Century), was a call to women to fight for their rights.
Some of her writing was published in a work by Antônio Simões dos Reis. Critical study of her work has been done by Christina Ramalho in Um espelho para Narcisa: Reflexos de uma voz romantica (1999).
Selected works
- Nebulosas, 1872
- Miragem
- Nelumbia
- O Romance da Mulher que Amou
- A Mulher do Século XIX